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Pre-"Van Halen" there's a ton of available songs, the best ones were put on a demo by Ted Templeman. ex. "Light in the Sky," (not "Up"), Big Trouble (best one, was supposedly redone then scrapped for DD and 1984), Get the Show on the Road, Babe Don't Leave me Alone, I Wanna Be Your Lover, etc.

However, note, most of that stuff was left off of VH1 because it was inferior to the stuff that came later. Even the songs that eventually made it onto other Van Halen albums, for example, "Voodoo Queen" became "Mean Street," and "House of Pain" went on 1984, SGMAD on II, and "Bring on the Girls" became "Beautiful Girls," had to be reworked significantly to get on the legit albums. If you wanna hear those, I know lots of places to get them. I'll post the link if anyone actually cares to hear the demos (both the Simmons mid 70s and Templeman '77 Demos).

But anywhoo, back to the topic, I'll go by album because one song is too hard:

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Pre-"Van Halen" there's a ton of available songs, the best ones were put on a demo by Ted Templeman. ex. "Light in the Sky," (not "Up"), Big Trouble (best one, was supposedly redone then scrapped for DD and 1984), Get the Show on the Road, Babe Don't Leave me Alone, I Wanna Be Your Lover, etc.

However, note, most of that stuff was left off of VH1 because it was inferior to the stuff that came later. Even the songs that eventually made it onto other Van Halen albums, for example, "Voodoo Queen" became "Mean Street," and "House of Pain" went on 1984, SGMAD on II, and "Bring on the Girls" became "Beautiful Girls," had to be reworked significantly to get on the legit albums. If you wanna hear those, I know lots of places to get them. I'll post the link if anyone actually cares to hear the demos (both the Simmons mid 70s and Templeman '77 Demos).

But anywhoo, back to the topic, I'll go by album because one song is too hard:

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Originally posted by Sir_Noodles Runnin with the DevilLittle DreamerDOASpanish FlySomebody Get me a DoctorOutta Love AgainWomen In LoveTake Your Whisky HomeUnchainedMean StreetsHear About it LaterSecretsLittle GuitarsPanamaTop JimmyHot For TeacherGirl Gone BadHouse of Pain

Good luck to anyone who can come up with a better list than that

Add Romeo's Delight and The Full Bug and you've got the Roth years covered pretty well.

With Sammy, I like Best of Both Worlds, 5150, Black and Blue, Cabo Wabo, Poundcake, Runaround, Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do), Humans Being, and various others.

Cherone has a couple that I can manage to listen to including From Afar and Without You.

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I would appreciate it if you could post the link to the demo's you mentioned. Sounds interesting.

There's a couple of places you can get them. As much as I hate that site, and you have to sign up for their gay message boards, This site has the complete version of the "After Zero" demos done by Ted Templeman, as well as the complete Gene Simmons demos. www.classicvanhalen.com has a couple of the Simmons demos.

Originally Posted by Ferdinandstrat

And Mr. Grimace, there is nothing that I would be delighted more to do right now then to punch you in the face until it disintegrates.

Just sign up and you can download anything you want. There's the demo they did with Gene Simmons. The demo they did with Ted Templeman. Tonnes of live shows from both pre '78 and post '78. Focuses on the DLR years.